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Gulaam Abdoola built Turnstar Holdings from nothing into a $115 million property group spanning Botswana, Tanzania and Dubai, making him one of southern Africa's most quietly formidable real estate tycoons.
Chandra Chauhan arrived at a struggling Botswana retailer worth $4.87 million in 2002 and built it into an $800 million southern African retail powerhouse spanning four countries.
Cletus Ibeto built a $3.8 billion empire spanning cement, petrochemicals and auto parts in Nigeria before earning his school certificate at age 48.
Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has dropped $8.7m on a SAOTA-designed Clifton mansion, his most striking real estate move yet.
Chirchir stated that no Chivayo-linked company bid for the JKIA contract, naming China Road and Bridge Corporation as the signatory.
He is worth roughly $9 billion on Bloomberg and absent from Forbes entirely. Inside the private empire of Mohammed Al-Amoudi — and why a collapsed Moroccan refinery just pulled him back into view.
The Elsewedy Electric chief is turning Egypt’s cable champion into a pan-regional infrastructure and manufacturing force — from power lines to electric cars. Inside the empire, the expansion, and an honest read of the number.
BUA’s cement-and-food champion nearly doubled his fortune in 2026 to become Africa’s second-richest — and just handed his son the next chapter. A full read of the holdings, the surge, and the succession.
Family Bank founder Titus Muya and his associates pocketed a $36.6 million paper gain as the Kenyan lender surged 44% on its NSE debut Tuesday.
Sheila Johnson's Salamander Washington DC, the 373-room luxury hotel she acquired for $139 million in 2022, is in talks to rebrand under the Marriott flag.
Malawi's first billionaire Thom Mpinganjira has donated K100 million to support the government's repatriation of Malawians facing abuse and hardship in South Africa.
IDH chief executive Hend El Sherbini and co-investor Moamena Kamel have launched a $291 million bid to take the diagnostics group private and delist it from London.
Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has pledged a R3 billion 300MW solar project to Eswatini after King Mswati III granted him citizenship and a diplomatic passport.
Johann Rupert's Richemont has poured more than $11 million into expanding its Scandicci leather production hub in Italy, more than doubling the facility's size.
Rostam Aziz's Taifa Mining has cleared a critical pre-construction drilling milestone at Lake Victoria Gold's fully permitted Imwelo gold project in Tanzania.
Nigeria's SEC has banned marketing of a purported Dangote Petroleum Refinery IPO, warning no application has been filed with or approved by the regulator.